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In article <1id1irINNmr8@anthrax.solbourne.com> hanzel@solbourne.com (Karl Hanzel) writes:
>
>What's the secret to being able to stuff (just for example) a 'tar' floppy
>into a NeXT's drive and then to read it?  The scenario is this:  i'm here
>at work, and i write off a 'tar' floppy on a machine here.  I go home and plug
>it in my NeXT, only to be prompted "Floppy unreadable:  initialize or eject?:"
>by a dialog window.  It expects that any floppy you stick in it is supposed to
>be a mountable file system... that's what it will do to it if you select the
>"initialize" option.  I need an "ignore" option that will just let it sit
>there in the drive until i later go to read it with 'tar'.  

Don't insert the floppy until the OS asks for it.  i.e. give the command

	% tar xvf /dev/rfd0a

and wait for the prompt panel to come up and ask you to insert a disk.

This should probably be in the FAQ list, but I don't think it is.


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